Rio Blanco Project
The Rio Blanco Shale Oil Company is a general partnership of Gulf Oil Corporation and Standard Oil Company (Indiana), formed to develop the oil shale resource on a 5.100-acre tract leased from the Department of the Interior in 1974 as part of Federal Prototype Oil Shale Leasing Program. The bid a total of $210,305.600 to obtain development on the first lease offered, designated as Tract C-a, located in Rio Blanco County in northwestern Colorado. The Environmental Impact Statement prepared by the federal government prior to the inaugration of the leasing program suggested that open pit mining and surface processing of the oil shale would be an appropriate method of development for Tract C-a. Initial plans were made along those lines, but various complications, primarily legal complications involving necessary additional federal land for waste disposal, forced a change of direction. Current plans are to develop a technology known as ''modified in situ (MIS)'' to test its commercial feasibility.
- Research Organization:
- Rio Blanco Oil Shale Company, Denver, Colorado
- OSTI ID:
- 5124098
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-801210-
- Journal Information:
- Alternative Energy Sources; (United States), Journal Name: Alternative Energy Sources; (United States) Vol. 6; ISSN ALESD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
040100* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Reserves & Exploration-- (-1989)
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COLORADO
COOPERATION
DECOMPOSITION
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
EXPLOITATION
FEDERAL REGION VIII
GEOLOGIC DEPOSITS
IN-SITU PROCESSING
IN-SITU RETORTING
LAND LEASING
LEASING
MINERAL RESOURCES
MINING
MODIFIED IN-SITU PROCESSES
NORTH AMERICA
OIL SHALE DEPOSITS
OIL SHALE MINING
PROCESSING
RESOURCES
RETORTING
RIO BLANCO OIL SHALE PROJECT
SURFACE MINING
USA